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oireachtas members attacked

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday March 20, 2003 20:50author by Raygun the third

disgraceful scenes outside Leinster House

RTE TV footage this evening showed John O'Donohue being mobbed by an angry crowd as he left Leinster House. A senator was hit by a paintbomb on the shoulder as he spoke to the media.

Can you imagine what would happen to a person if they hit Saddam Hussein with a paint bomb? Do you think they would live for more than ten seconds?

Compare that to our democracy where the offender was arrested and RELEASED a few minutes later.

Once again, so called peace protestors have continued to let us down, just as they have repeatedly done in Shannon. This kind of activity looses support, but they rarely understand that.

Thank god we live in a democracy, and thank god we have brave men and women who defend that priviledge (I am thinking in particular of those Irish men in the RIR and presently in Kuwait).

footage is archived at www.rte.ie/news

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